What Would You Do With Three Months Off From Your Life?

posted on September 4, 2013

Today’s Blogtember prompt asks: If you could take three months off from your current life and do anything in the world, what would you do?

The truth is, I don’t need three months off from my life. I’ve had several years off from it! I’m not tied up or weighed down by work, education, significant others, children or any sort of hometown love or pride. If I left, I’d miss my sister and my mom and my cat, but that’s about it. My problem is I can’t afford to fund most of what I’m going to do.

So here’s the question I’m going to answer: If money weren’t an issue, how would you change your life?

The answer is really easy: I would rent an apartment, jump on a plane, and move to the UK with my best friend.

A house in Oxford.

There isn’t even a city I’ve got my heart set on. London would be perfect — for three months or permanently — but Oxford felt like home to me when I was there, and I wouldn’t say no to Birmingham, or Glasgow, or really anywhere else.

A street somewhere in Jericho.

Being in the UK would be massively beneficial for my career as a photographer and model — weird though it may sound, I don’t know how to market myself in Spain or in Spanish, or how to find work I want to do. Finding work in the UK? Takes about two clicks.

Westminster.

Having my best friend there with me would be awesome on its own, and it would also help a ton with my modeling and fashion blogging, because she’s a fantastic photographer, and shooting somewhere I love with someone who actually wants to be there would make things so much fun.

My best friend, Annemari, in London.

All these pictures were taken in 2008 — over five years ago — which is coincidentally the last and only time I’ve met Annemari in person because she lives in Estonia and I’m here in Spain. That is just wrong. (She’ll tell you the same thing, partly because, if we could swap climates, we would.) I’m really hoping I can get a plane ticket for London some time this winter and spend at least a few days there with her. But in my heart of hearts, I want to move there permanently. And I would (will) do so in a heartbeat if (when) I had (have) the funds.

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It has been too long! I was just thinking this summer that it has been a full five years. Honestly, I might start actively searching for jobs or something. It’s 23C in London at the moment and you know that’s just unfair.

Lix Hewett

Dooooo iiiiit. Searching for jobs (and applying to them): not really that hard if you know where to look!

PSA to anyone else reading: see, best friends comment when you tell them to comment so people will know it’s true they exist.

Jessica Panian

This sounds so lovely! I also want to visit (and maybe move to for a while) the UK. My sister studied abroad there in college (when I was just a baby) and it sounds like she had such a wonderful time. It would be even better to have a friend like Annemari come along! I would probably bring one of my best friends, Kaitlin. She is my Annemari, as she loves to adventure and take photos and our silences are never awkward. Conversation is never forced and I love that. I hope you get to visit the UK and Annemari this winter!

I’d love to go places I’ve never been, but that’s a bit lower on the priority list than moving to the UK. :)

I wish I weren’t hyperaware of money/financial constraints, but it’s kind of hard when it’s such a major problem in your life! I hope people aren’t super put off by my talking about it. I just think it’s a much better idea than pretending those problems don’t exist. Being open about it has really helped me deal with things.

I want to see so much of Europe I rarely think of the places outside the continent I’d also like to see. There are just so many!

La Caseta de Paper

The UK is amazing! I loved Oxford, and also Cambridge, where I spent a Summer working as aupair back then. Definitely is one of the places I would consider moving! I love your pics, they have a really beautiful atmosphere!

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